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Title: Things I Took from the Dark
Publisher: Quercus
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1529453135
ISBN 13: 9781529453133
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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For decades, Reece Shearsmith has been collecting terrible and unexpected exhibits from our world and beyond, from the screaming skull of Glamis Castle to the Highgate vampire, via sea devils, the Krampus and a talking mongoose called Gef. Some of them he found, some of them found him, but they all reside here in his museum, carefully stored and waiting for their stories to be told.

Through the lens of these items, Reece tells his own story, from a terrifying nighttime visitation on a council estate in Hull, via haunted inns and uncanny creatures that hovered around the edges of the League of Gentlemen, to the benevolent teaspoon poltergeist of the Inside No. 9 tour. Beautifully illustrated throughout by the author, Things I Took from the Dark is a memoir like no other. You'll come away knowing the author far better; but the exhibits are quite interested in you too...

About the Author

Reece Shearsmith is the award-winning actor, writer and co-creator of Inside No 9 and The League of Gentlemen. He has also starred in numerous other TV comedies, including Car Share alongside Peter Kay, Mid Morning Matters with Steve Coogan, Catterick with Reeves and Mortimer and Spaced with Simon Pegg. Reece also has an illustrious career on stage, starring in new plays by Steven Moffat (The Unfriend at the Minerva Theatre in Colchester), Lucy Prebble (A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic) and Martin McDonagh (Hangmen at the Royal Court).

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